Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their bus in front of the Ministry of Defense and "made signs against the army," then issued an announcement warning that the "events threaten national unity." At this signal, pro-government demonstrators themselves took to the streets yelling "Bayar, back to your cave," and ransacked Justice Party headquarters. In Istanbul, cops tried to prevent a bloody clash by opening both pontoon bridges across the Golden Horn, thus separating pro-and anti-Bayar groups...
Hauling out a Menderes-era law outlawing any written or spoken word aimed at disturbing "the established" order, the Inonu regime last month jailed Kayhan Saglamer, managing editor of Istanbul's influential daily, Cumhuriyet, and Sadi Alkilic, a freelance writer. It turned out that Cumhuriyet had published an article by Alkilic entitled "Socialism Is the Only Salvation for Turkey"-one of a score submitted in the newspaper's annual essay contest...
Fortnight ago, Dr. Adnan Benk, respected professor of philology at Istanbul University, and Afsar Timucin, editor of the cultural magazine Atac, were clapped into prison for another crime with words. Atac had carried Benk's translation of parts of a book that included four quotations from Karl Marx. Prior to releasing the pair last week on bail, an Istanbul judge ignored Benk's argument that the entire book can be read in the Istanbul University library...
Inonu's troubles came from a group of rebels led by Kasim Gulek, 57, a fiery Republican who has always spoken his mind no matter what the risk. An able economist who studied at Istanbul's U.S.-financed Robert College, Columbia University and the Sorbonne, Gulek shouted defiance at the late Premier Adnan Menderes when it was not at all healthy to do so, was arrested in 1956 for "insulting the National Assembly" in public speeches...
...Istanbul...